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South Korea is making sure that North Korean soldiers at the border hear all about the defection of their fellow soldier. The South has been broadcasting news of the defection over loudspeakers installed near the DMZ, reports the Yonhap News Agency. On Sunday, for example, the loudspeakers spread the news about the soldier's lousy nutrition—doctors reported finding large worms inside him. The apparent goal of the low-tech propaganda is to encourage other soldiers to follow suit.

"The news about an elite soldier like a JSA guard having fled in a hail of bullets will have a significant psychological impact on North Korean border guards," a South Korean military spokesman tells the Chosun Ilbo newspaper, per Business Insider. The defector, identified only as a 24-year-old named Oh, continues to recuperate after being shot at least five times during his escape. One thing known about him: He likes the show CSI. (Read more North Korea stories.)

I like the creativity of the south. I can only hope that the North did not immediately jail or kill this mans relatives. That would seem like an effective deterrent that would negate anything the South tried to lure them over.

julianpenrod

Nov 27, 2017 1:42 PM CST

Among other things, so it is wrong for Russia to warn the U.S. about the craven wretchedness of Hillary Clinton, but it's all right for the U.S. to spread ugly stories which may not even be true, to try to initiate a bloody uprising of people against the government of North Korea. The same process of U.S. intervention in other nations' business, for craven personal interest, that has been repeated innumerably many times around the world What Donald Trump admitted was the case in an interview. And, again, the suspicious nature of the accusation. “Large worms” inside the soldier? Among other things, they could not grow large if there wasn't enough nutrition in his diet. Also, there are many in The West who have tapeworms. And, if he was malnourished, it's unlikely he would have been able to escape through the DMZ and survive being shot five times. Also, consider that, unlike dimwits who support the hatred for other nations that their political party orders them to, North Koreans know the claims being broadcast are lies. They know the truth of the situation. They are soldiers themselves who know that conditions are like, they are families of soldiers who know they are not sick, they are citizens who are not starving.